Carto (formerly CartoDB) in Brooklyn, New York offers their location intelligence solution.
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Milestone Inc.
Score9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Milestone helps businesses create, organize, and amplify their digital information by enhancing their digital presence to make information more accurate, consistent, and visible. They do this with a digital presence platform and add to it as much or as little service as needed to help clients be everywhere customers are. The vendor states they work with major brands and mid-size businesses across industries to drive traffic, engagement, and revenue through omnichannel marketing fueled by…
CartoDB is great for generating geographic visualizations of data where the geographies are well-defined. It would be great for analysts to develop visualizations of data with spatial elements. That being said, the software is limited if you want to do any real data munging or analysis, as it can be cumbersome to use and there isn't a great interface for actually saving the results of different manipulations (you can save it as a new file, but it's hard to do version control, etc.). I would recommend preparing the data outside of CartoDB and only using the tool for visualization once the data is well prepared.
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Whether it be for a website redesign, increasing visibility in local search, SEO, or even Analytics no matter the industry, if your business has a website (or if you're thinking about creating a website for your business) - Milestone is the right choice.
It is amazing at allowing control of the visualizations. It takes a little bit to get used to but the combination of full SQL queries and CSS-like styling is very powerful.
The services are built on a robust stack of open source software. I was able to build a standalone instance of CartoDB relatively easily (after some research and trial and error).
Server side map rendering is key for handling large data sets. The way the images are returned makes them very easy to catch in an HTTP cache to minimize the hits to the server. The interactivity that CartoDB has built in makes this completely transparent to the end user, they can click on parts of the static images and be presented with popups or change map styles. It's a very clever implementation.
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During my experience and time with Milestone and the team I've been fortunate to be working with, there isn't anything I would say they would need to improve upon.
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We looked at several providers but felt that Milestone's top down commitment was the ideal match for our organization. The partnership with Choice in addition to the multiple technological capabilities of the new site and enhanced SEO capabilities made them the obvious choice for us to move forward with. Compared to the other groups evaluated, Milestone was the only one to talk about results vs. the process which gave us confidence they were the right long-term partner.
CartoDB definitely saves a lot of time when creating visualizations. Previously, I would use different software and have to make edits manually (or just create the visualizations manually to start with). I would say that the software definitely cuts the time required to create certain visualizations by a half or two-thirds.
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